Ideation is the discipline of getting through a process to develop and distill an idea so that it can reach a certain quality. When you are working with storyboards, concept design or other forms of visual communication, that usually means an idea for a visual message.

One way to brainstorm is to take a skill that nature has given us all, and that is to recognise patterns. Most people is able to see shapes or figures when looking at the skies. I can usually see some figures og pattern in everything, everywhere I go. My imagination is always on the run.

The methods I am demonstrating in this storyboarder toolbox tutorial shows how to provoke more random patterns when you develope visual ideas and to utilize them...